Criminal Investment Fraud Christopher Angus: Stella Huh & Timothy Barton Partner Christopher Angus
This category features blog posts related to investment fraud guru Christopher Angus. Throughout 2016 we sent Christopher Angus over $3 million in investments, and in 2017 he did a "oops I lied to you every day and lost all your money, shucks!" pitch. We knew he stole the money, but the UK's Crown Police were too lazy to follow the money trail and did not analyze the electronic devices.
Right after receiving the first investment Christopher Angus "joked" about putting the money in Bitcoin. A decade after committing his fraud Christopher Angus shows no signs of holding a job, is not looking for employment, and still lives in the same house. A private investigator firm analyzed his profile and concluded he is sitting on stolen funds outside of the formal financial system.
His 8 counts of international wire fraud, along with the money laundering and embezzlement will likely be treated as part of the Timothy Lynch Barton racketeering crime ring, giving him many potential 20-year sentences to enjoy.
Racketeering criminal Timothy Lynch Barton (fraudulently mis-)manged a bunch of companies named Wall Cos 1 through 20, while comingling investor funds. Only a couple of the companies ever engaged in any sort of real estate purchase or development. The entities and assets were just dressing to sell the ponzi scheme. Timothy Barton has tried to delay every move of the SEC receivership while his racketeering criminals have been busy hiding, selling, and structuring assets. The companies were purported to be real estate investment companies, however they were used to embezzle investor funds and launder them through cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin via theft-by-conversion. According to sources we have been in contact with the seed funding for the ponzi scheme came from an investment Aaron Wall and Giovanna Villanueva made through Stella Huh's partner Christopher Angus in the UK. Crown Police were too lazy to follow the money trail and claimed the banking records were protected by GDPR, though the FBI will slice through such nonsense in the coming weeks. The Timothy Barton criminal case (U.S. v. Barton, Case No. 3:22-cr-00352-K) will appear in court on November 2, 2026.
Not only did criminal Christopher Angus steal millions from us, but we have faced a rash of bad luck over the last few years as criminals tied to the Timothy Barton racketeering crime ring have hacked my wife's electronic devices, repeatedly offered death threats, bribed people to make false statements, etc. ... we are tired of the threats, crimes, and nonsense. This blog will help ensure the racketeering frauds are put in prison where they belong.
Convicted fraud and self-confessed criminal Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This third video is 22:36 & was shared on March 18, 2016. The criminal who shared these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18263036.christopher-angus-jailed-fraud-friend-philippines/
Crown Police never followed the money trail.
0 minutes 40 seconds: did not do any trades because risk in market was too high, sat on hands
3 minutes 30 seconds: talks about how 5 point range in S&P 500 is absurdly tight & how normal range is 17 to 20 points
5 minutes 20 seconds: gambling is not what we do
6 minutes 20 seconds: difference between high volatility & low volatility markets in terms of margin of safety in entry and exits
12 minutes 5 seconds: does not believe in crystal ball & only trades reactively to good trade set ups
15 minutes 10 seconds: again talks about hedging any positions
16 minutes 20 seconds: vix at 20 is often a decent entry point to start buying
19 minutes 20 seconds: (over next 1 minute & 10 seconds) explains how low volatility makes entries harder & states he thinks options get too complicated. mentions most the smart people in options make money selling premium, which is writing options betting volatility will fall. then states he can't deviate from what he does, which works even in bad markets we still make money.
20 minutes 30 seconds: states importance of discipline & states people who lose it and start fooling around are basically gambling
00:00 Christopher Angus: Okay, so just a quick recap. We didn't place any trades today as I suspected. I thought today was gonna be another horrendous day, and it was. This is just... Let me just go back a little here, what time is it? Let's see if I can...
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00:35 Christopher Angus: Sorry I'm just... It's not good.
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00:50 Christopher Angus: Let me do it like this. So yesterday we closed at down here. And once the cash opened, it basically would've just gapped up. That's not really a trade there. You would've just found the cash there, and then had to decide are we gonna buy it here, 'cause you ain't selling it there, that's for sure. And if you had decided to buy it, which of course I didn't 'cause I just... Instinctively, I knew it was gonna happen. I just watched it and it just fell off again and turned around and came back up. As you can see, it's so volatile just on the open from 9:30 US time to 10:00 that you always have these really big moves. These moves aren't really big enough to make decent kind of money. This one here is like around half a point, which would've actually been able to make money, but we weren't really in that frame of mind where we're trying to take half a point because you're not gonna get half a point. You're not gonna get it right on the bottom; you're gonna get it here, like at 17.2. And then as it comes up, you're not gonna get it at 16.2; you're gonna sell it something down there at like 17.4.
02:20 Christopher Angus: Plus, you have to take 0.1 into consideration, so 17.2 to 17.4's 0.2. And then there's 0.1 in commission that you're paying back. Of course we get some of that back, but in a sense we would've made 0.1. We would've made one tick on that. That's not really a trade. And this, of course, is not a trade at all. There's there's nothing in that like. You're not gonna nail this at 7.04, so 17.1, 17.30. They would've had to have complete precision to make 0.1 after you've paid your commission. And that's not a trade, that you would've not even broken even. So there's just been no opportunities. But like I said, we wanted to see the VIX drop-off. Thankfully, at the end of the day, it sort of dropped again.
03:15 Christopher Angus: Again, the contracts rolling over, the March contract is expiring. Which means that we can now get on and trade tomorrow because we may have been able to make a little money today if I'd really worked like a son-of-a-bitch. Wouldn't have been easy and I wouldn't have made a lot but, with the Fed stuff coming up, that's all Bloomberg's talking about, getting us ready for a June rate increase. No, a cut, sorry about that. Basically, no one's ready trading. Or people are trading, but they're just gently buying it. And you'll see some interesting stuff. If I look at the S&P, so S&P had a big gap down on the open opposite to the volatility, as you could see. And you could see everyone selling into the open here and then covering their positions at the close of the day. These people got short and I guess probably hoping for a breakdown or something. That didn't happen, so everyone just settled at the end of the day.
04:27 Christopher Angus: It would've been obviously virtually an equal number of buyers that wanted to fill this gap. So whenever there's a big gap, the algos are always gonna wanna fill the gap. It's a standard play, so the algos start buying it here hoping they'll get back here. And it didn't even do that. It was so lackluster it was unbelievable. If we look what happened on the open, we opened... Where's the open? Around 17.11, and we traded between 17.11 to 17.05. We closed at 17.15. It's a very, very tight range. No break out, just stuck. And this is really indicative of some really big upcoming news and... Oh, bollocks. If we look at the news that's coming up tomorrow, this the Forex Factory. It's like a Forex thing, but I use it because it lists all the upcoming events. Very, very important because that's when you get a lot of the volatility. And you can see, this is from like this an hour after the open tomorrow 'cause we're an hour ahead on Daylight Saving. That'll be evened up at the end of the week 'cause for some reason, the US changes an hour early compared to Europe, which is pretty cool for me. I wish it was always like this 'cause it lets me finish an hour earlier.
05:55 Christopher Angus: But over here, we can see there's all this, there's crude oil, there's all this FOMC, which is the Fed stuff. And it's gonna be a really kind of crazy day. And even now before the open here, we can see there's building permits which is really indicative of what the economy's doing. Not really, 'cause it's all bullshit anyway. They bend the numbers. But it does cause volatility in the market and the CPI. Tomorrow's a huge news day. Massive. Let's have a look at the end of the week. Unemployment tomorrow as well, and then the Philly Fed Manufacturing Index. Again, this is a lot of the industrial stuff and it gives an indication which way the economy is going or the industrial side because if people are not spending money on industrial goods, like investing in machinery and stuff, it's seen as usually quite a negative signal for the economy.
07:03 Christopher Angus: There's gonna be some massive volatility tomorrow and on Thursday, yay. Finally. 'Cause the last two days, I can't even remember shitty days like this. So, no trades at all. Didn't even bother. I was hardly interested 'cause I knew this is just a way to get caught under water as you try and buy this and then be unhappy. I know it. What did I wanna show you here? Let's have a look.
07:38 Christopher Angus: So I wanted to show you a time where we would hedge... Now we only would really hedge when we are selling volatility, when we buying volatility, there's not really a need to hedge because if it does run through your order and you to go under water you know it's gonna come back, especially if you buy it well. And the time when we would hedge is when we got it wrong on the sell. So let me just see if I can zoom in a little bit here give you a little example this is obviously not going to be... This is just a made up thing 'cause I haven't had to hedge but... So a hedge we would want to... We would think that the market was... This is well out.
08:31 Christopher Angus: Hedge would be once we'd be thinking that the market was going down, but actually what it did was it just turned around and went back up again. So over here last... No, give you a more recent example, yeah. So... See if I can make that a bit better. Okay, so here... It was at February, yep, alright. So we we we... Systems nearly fully automated now anyway. The hard thing is just trying to tell the system where the ranges are because we don't just buy at 14 or 15 and 16 and sell it 25. It depends on where the ranges are being established over a short amount of time. So this would be a really nice range to trade because like one point one point one point one point like it's very obvious, we wouldn't have been selling it here. We would have just bought it wait it bought it wait it... And so on.
09:49 Christopher Angus: Until it got to about here and then we would have sold it because that there becomes quite a clear place, but I want to show you a place where we would have had to hit. So what we do is when we buy volatility, we just buy it. We place it depending on where it is in relation to the bottom and this is very, very close to the bottom but depends on the size of our trade. So its a money management thing. Now, when we sell volatility, we have to have a hedge in place because volatility has unlimited upside. So say we wants to sell volatility here and have a hedge, wait what number is that... 19, have a hedge on 21. So we sell volatility and it doesn't, it goes against us and it hits our hedge, now our positions is Delta neutral. So we've locked in a loss, say we're like two grand down. Now we're gonna remain two grand down as it comes up here. Now, one position is going to be four grand up, for example, and the other is gonna be six grand down. Once it gets here, we'll start to break the hedge and take... Lift one of the legs and we would then lift some of the leg so that the... That the buy side of things has been... Is lighter than the sell side. So we now are going to start pocketing some of the profit.
11:31 Christopher Angus: This isn't a profit gain, by the way. Let's start pocketing some of that profit and start to remove it bit by bit by bit. So now, by the time it gets back here, we probably only have one side of the leg back on. In effect we'd would still be two grand down but our balance would be four grand higher. But we would still be running a negative position and then we would of just let it go through. That's a really over simplified version of how hedging works. It's never... It doesn't really play out that... As simply as straightforward as that because, as I said, there is a cost attached. There's higher transactional fees. When you lift legs, often you lift a leg... Say we started lifting a leg early, we might have to put the leg back on.
12:18 Christopher Angus: It gets, as I said really, really complicated and its something which we try hard not to do because what happens is you don't lose money but you end up focusing a lot on trying to unwind hedges and you have to unwind them very, very slowly because as soon as you take off big pieces in one go, you inevitably will have to be putting them back on because you don't want it to continue out. So that's fundamentally how we handle trades that don't work this... You would have seen the market turning. Okay, maybe it's turning... This is around the level which its turned. No it didn't, caught in a hedge, picked up a hedge here, lift the leg over simplified and then let it run down and if it had turned here we would have had to put it back on again.
13:12 Christopher Angus: Often make money from hedging just because you're picking it up, it's running back down, and you'd taking some money, then you take that money you take it out then you reduce your risk on the other side. So say we'd made four grand there but was six grand down, we could basically take... Make that position a lot smaller and then we would still be two grand down but our actual risk could be much smaller because the contract numbers would be much lower, if that makes sense. The position would be much, much, much smaller. So if there is a big rip, it's not going to be hurtful. There's many ways of doing it, that's kind of my way of doing it. Anyway, like I said, we fully automated the problem teaching the computer or the algorithm and trying to train it is to train it where the ranges are. And as I said, this is obvious as a human being because you buying selling wait, buy sell wait, buy sell wait. This is also a range which we were trading, was it we were trading for you here? I don't think so. But this is a range which we were trading.
14:17 Christopher Angus: This is arranged we... I think, we traded a little bit, but you don't make as much money. This is where you make lots of money. I think I said yesterday, these big one-way moves down or up. And this is not even a range. This is just like this needs some Viagra or something because it's like nothing's happening. Anyway, this one's a little easier because we kinda knew it was at the bottom anyway because of where it had been and what the broader markets were doing. Over here, you can see I'm a little bit more cautious because I know that it's highly likely to come down a little bit further. Because that's kind of [chuckle] what it does. And I wanna get a good position. Over here, we would have handled that in a different way and been a lot smaller. But I'm looking to really try and capitalize on this and do well for us here.
15:25 Christopher Angus: So, we'll have to see. As I said, tomorrow, it's very likely that we'll start trading again, pretty much regardless of what this does. I'm not gonna be waiting around too much longer because just after the stuff in the morning... Where are we? US time. It's evening for you. But just after the stuff at 12:30 UK time, that's at 8:30. That will cause some volatility. And almost certain you'll be wanting to trade there. If unlisted, it's just flat again. But this is gonna cause some incredible volatility. And I'm gonna eat that all up. Yummy.
16:12 Christopher Angus: And then again on Thursday, I've got some unemployment stuff. Yep. Thursday I've got unemployment in the US and that is wild. So yeah. Monday and Tuesday, zero. But I'm pretty sure at end of the week we'll be where we need to be. We're at 5% at least. At least. So that's the video. Not even that interesting I'm afraid because there's so little that's happened all day. It's just been a bit of just a zero day. Nothing. Nothing's gone on. But thanks for your patience. It will come good. And it's the right thing to do. I can't just start forcing on trades because I'm getting impatient or I feel under pressure, I don't. This is what we have to do. We've just got to wait, be patient, and on average, we'll make good money. Thanks a lot. Speak to you tomorrow.
Convicted fraudster and self-confessed criminal Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This first video is 13:55 & was shared on Monday, March 14, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8047311/Businessman-told-friend-hed-quadrupled-2-3m-investment-fortune-actually-blew-1-18.html
UK Crown Police never followed the money trail.
highlights how positions are hedged & runs tight money management. hedges are a cost that act like insurance.
at 11:30 he talks about how he would dread the day of reporting a loss because it would be totally unnecessary because it would be caused by mental error.
00:00 Christopher Angus: Okay, so just a quick video on why I'm just holding my nerve, so to speak, and not wanting to initiate a trade. This chart shows two things, the blue line is the S&P it's actually the SPY, but that's a mirror image of the S&P, the correlation is one, so it's identical, and then the pink line is volatility. As you can see, there is basically a 100% inverse correlation of one, inverse correlation. As the S&P drops, volatility goes up, and as the S&P goes up, volatility drops. So based on previous history, you can see here this is from 1998, the volatility is very close to the bottom. It's only really been down around, let's say, 11.85 when the markets were super, super high; sort of breaking record highs. Let me just put that there. So you can see when the markets were breaking record highs at every point that's when volatility was at its very bottom.
01:15 Christopher Angus: Now, the S&P's very far from actually breaking a new record high, over 100 points. So, volatility is basically at the bottom; you can see that dotty line there. I can't... If I move that up just a wee bit. It's way, way below its historic average. So, that means we're gonna take a very formulaic strategy of, buy low and sell high. There's only one thing we can do, and this is part of the strategy, and that is... Let me expand this out. It doesn't work that well there. We can't short the VIX now or sell it and then buy it back when it's lower because it's near the bottom. So there's basically nothing, no downside potential; there's no downside opportunity. So when you're obviously trading anything, you can only buy or sell, and if you short, you're obviously making when it goes down, when you buy, you're making when it goes up, obviously, as you know.
02:21 Christopher Angus: Now, since there's hardly any way to go down, because we're so close to the bottom, there's basically very, very limited opportunity. And there's obviously a much larger risk that if the VIX spikes and we are short, that could be kind of bad, so we'd have to run a hedge and hedges run a cost, and it just would be really, really stupid to short the VIX now. So that leaves us with one option and that's to buy. And because we're very close to the bottom, I'm waiting for a bottom to come in. I've got my orders ready and I'm waiting patiently and I'm very reactive, as I've said before, I'm not proactive because I don't know. I used to have a huge sign above my desk that I printed out in big letters that said, "You don't know." And it was just a reminder to me to say that anything can happen, basically.
03:14 Christopher Angus: So, what I'm hoping for and expecting to see is that the VIX will come to bottom around 16 or at, very close to 17 now, and we're actually got close. What was the bottom here today on the VIX? It doesn't say. I might have to get rid of that chart, I think. But the bottom of the VIX today was around 16 and a half, I think. So, we're waiting for something in the region of 16, maybe a little higher, maybe a lower before we go, before we start to go along. Now, this is a very good opportunity because it doesn't happen that often. It was a bit funky in November, but you can see that about once a month or so it kind of tries to bottom out and then you buy it and you sell it much higher. So that didn't actually happen in the last couple of months either, which makes it an even nicer opportunity, because when it gets down here, we buy it and we buy it hard. In the last month, you can see what we're actually doing is shorting the VIX and we're running upside hedges.
04:28 Christopher Angus: Thankfully we didn't have the hedge any other time, but if you do short the VIX and it rockets up 2-3 points, and you hit a hedge, the hedge has a cost then you're gotta unwind that hedge and you never make a full amount of profit. So the reason I'm pretty excited about this but also I'd like to see it happen, is that we don't need to run a hedge now. We're so close to the bottom no matter what happens, we'll be fine. And so if we've gotta wait a couple of days, it'll be fine. And also, we'll be able to really take a larger position, not like this where you've gotta run very, very tight money management, because the VIX has unlimited upside potential. So if you short the VIX, and it hits a hedge and you gotta unwind the hedge then you gotta re-hedge, it can get very, very complicated and costly, and it requires a lot of discipline and patience. And obviously, like I said, when you hedge things, hedge is an insurance, it carries a cost, and so you just start chopping away at the profits in a trade.
05:33 Christopher Angus: So I can't really articulate my happiness, that we're actually down here and we'll have a straightforward trade. Now its been a slow couple of days, I know, but that's because I have had no choice. The market's grinding up, the VIX grinds down, that's the way it is, and there's no more downside potential. Like here, we're making loads and you can see those but we had a few massive days. We're making like 2, 3%, or close to 3%, because the VIX was just a steamship down and we'll sell high and buy low or buy low and sell high. It's the straightforward market mechanics. Once it starts getting into these very kind of funky ranges like this, wasn't an easy time to trade over here, because it becomes a knife edge. Are you high or are you low? The VIX is at like 20, 21, 22; you don't know. So you have to look at other market data which is coming at you to work out what's going on at the market. Like some of the other stuff, like gold and the T-notes, which I pay very, very close attention to, because the T-notes, like volatility, usually give you a leading indication of what's gonna happen.
06:50 Christopher Angus: Of course, we are also on upside hedges all the time, and when we're short in the market if we're going up. But right now, there's no choice, we can only go up. I cannot go short the market and try and catch like, one point. It would be absolutely ridiculous. Why take risk going down when I can wait a little bit and catch a really; there is a opportunity to catch a really, really big move up? So on average, maybe we'll make nothing tomorrow either. You just gotta bear that in mind. But if we catch like a three or four point pop and we will be bigger than all because there's no, hardly anymore, downside to go and basically there's no risk, absolutely zero, zero, zero, zero, zero risk of actually hurting ourselves in any way. We may, if it does keep, if we buy at 16 and it goes to 15, we carry it overnight. It's not gonna be a big deal. However, I wanna wait. I'd rather catch it at 16 than catch it at 17 and watch it go to 15.50. I'd rather be buying it at 16 and then buying it at 15.50 again, and then catching it all the way back up to 20, 'cause it'll be a really spectacular day and week. It'll make the week, if not the month.
08:06 S1: So it just requires a lot of patience. Sometimes it can get frustrating. You don't earn for a couple of days. That's just the way it is, and when it gets low like this, it really becomes a money printing press for a very short amount of time, because you catch it low, there's no downside, it's like someone giving you an insider tip saying, "You know, this stock is going up because some of the rating agencies, on an insider tip has... " And if this was a credible, as the markets are bent like that with hedge funds, if there was an insider tip, as soon as those insider tips, those rating agencies say, "Buy." Or, "Out perform." Or whatever they say, the stocks rocket. They go up like 10-20%, and that's kind of the position we are in now, is that we're just waiting for this to happen and then we're gonna jump on and it's going to be big, it really is. It'll be the best day that we've seen, with no downside. So just be a little more patient because with the Fed announcing something on Wednesday, probably warming the market up for a rate cut in June, that's why the market's kind of doing this kind of choppy, grind, chop grind grind grind grind chop chop chop grind grind chop.
09:32 Christopher Angus: And also, there's two futures contracts, which we trade. The March contract which is expiring on Wednesday. We can't trade that. Now, the downside is not being able to trade that because it expires on Wednesday, we have to wait for that one to go away, and for then for April and May to come in, is that March follows the VIX cash very closely. Like it's almost one to one. It is a little bit more benign. So say, the VIX was at 16.50, the cash would be at 17. Sorry, the cash was at 17, the March contract will be at 16.50, and then say so the cash goes up 4%, the first VIX, the front month, the March VIX month of March, would go up 3%. Now then the April one might go up like 1.5%. So the movements are much more benign and lazy in terms of actual making proper moves. So we're not able to really trade any instruments which are moving with any vigor because we can't trade the March future now. It's two days, basically one day, 'cause we're at the end of play, oh I think we've closed already actually, because we're an hour early, because we'll catch up at the end of the week, but there's one day left to trade with the March contract and we can't, because if we run a small loss, say 2000-3000 loss because we buy it at 17 and it goes to 16 or something.
11:15 Christopher Angus: And at the close of play, halfway through Wednesday, lunchtime Wednesday, that contract rolls over, or it goes away, expires, we would absorb that entire loss. And, we try not to make any losses here. I dread the day when I have to report one, because I think it would be a mistake and I would have made a mistake and be unnecessary. But I would have had some brain fuck up, that would have happened because they're totally unnecessary. So, for those reasons, the market's grinding higher, the VIX is grinding low, I can only buy. So, I'm waiting to buy better. Two; the Fed is making the markets go in higher and choppy and it's up and down, up and down. I think on Friday the S&P was caught in a seven point range. And number three; I can't trade the March contract. I would have to trade the April contract because March is expiring on Wednesday and April hardly moves until March expires then April attaches itself to the VIX's cash more, which makes it a little more correlated. And then the May one comes into play, but it's a lot more benign. I hope I'm articulating myself correctly. But those are the three main reasons, the grind higher and there's no more downside for the VIX, I can only go up. So, I have to buy, but I'm waiting for a good spot.
12:33 Christopher Angus: The Fed, and then that's what everyone's waiting for. That's a painful grind higher. And number three, the VIX contract expiring on a Wednesday. So, those are the three reasons I'm basically stuck until Wednesday. I will trade the April contract, which won't roll over, or expire, if we get a major pop. But the mark, we're done for the day. And there was fuck all at what happened. So, Wednesday's the day. And I have to say, just be patient. And I'm sorry to not make any money today, but it's... I'd rather buy better on Wednesday and have a 10-15% day and week, because these things hardly ever come along. It's to catch it right at the right time, not to be in a position so you can actually put some size on. We're in a very fortunate position at the moment. And I think tomorrow's gonna be... It may be okay, but I'm really banking on Wednesday being a good day. So, I hope that explains where I'm at at the moment, just waiting for a good set up to make, to hopefully end, or start the middle of the week, having a very, very strong middle of the week. That's it for now. I'll catch you on Skype. Cheers. Bye.
